Author Archives: stuartelden

From toxic wreck to crunchy chic: A photo essay – Leslie Kern

Posted on March 28, 2015 by stuartelden

Also from Society and Space, a photo essay to accompany a recently published article. Both the essay and article are open access – the article for one month and the essay permanently.

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Society and Space open access highlight papers updated

Posted on March 28, 2015 by stuartelden

The ‘highlights’ section of the Environment and Planning D: Society and Space website has been updated. Several recent papers are now available open access – including pieces by Giorgio Agamben, Henri Lefebvre, Bruce Braun, Melissa Wright, Katharyne Mitchell, Sarah Elwood, Matthew Gandy…

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The Uncollected Foucault – further updates to texts available and requests

Posted on March 27, 2015 by stuartelden

This site’s list of Foucault’s uncollected notes, lectures and interviews has been updated again. One which took a bit of locating was a text supposedly under the title ‘Pour la défense libre’, prepared in late 1979 for a 1980 meeting of lawyers.  The … Continue reading →

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Neil Brenner in Melbourne – video of lecture and audio of interview

Posted on March 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Video of Neil Brenner’s recent lecture at the Melbourne School of Design And an interview conducted on that visit: Man about town: Neil Brenner on reframing our cities and their global impact; with a transcript here. Thanks to Alvaro Sevilla … Continue reading →

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Fanatical counter-histories – A conversation with Alberto Toscano and Gisle Selnes

Posted on March 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Fanatical counter-histories – A conversation with Alberto Toscano and Gisle Selnes at Eurozine. The philosopher Alberto Toscano visited Bergen on 29 November 2014 to participate in the seminar “Fanaticism, Extremism, Radicalism”, organized by the research group Radical Philosophy and Literature … Continue reading →

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Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists (2012)

Posted on March 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
https://vimeo.com/49843119 Richard Wolin, Biopolitics and Engagement: What Foucault Learned about Power from the Maoists, Feb 28, 2012 Michel Foucault’s conception of “power-knowledge” has been one of the most influential political ideas to have arisen in…

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Diacritics theme issue on Jean-Luc Nancy

Posted on March 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Diacritics theme issue on Jean-Luc Nancy – 42.4 from 2014 Thanks to Peter Gratton for the link.

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Judith Butler bibliography online

Posted on March 26, 2015 by stuartelden

When Praxis Becomes Unbearable – a bibliography of Judith Butler’s work. I am sharing this with whoever cares in the work of this philosopher and in this sort of research endeavor. This is all the work of Judith Butler I … Continue reading →

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Jenny Edkins, Face Politics – coming in April

Posted on March 26, 2015 by stuartelden

Jenny Edkins, Face Politics is forthcoming in April. I was one of the readers and provided an endorsement. The face is central to contemporary politics. In Deleuze and Guattari’s work on faciality we find an assertion that the face is … Continue reading →

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New Sloterdijk Books from Polity – Stress and Freedom, In the Shadow of Mount Sinai, and Jean-Pierre Couture’s study

Posted on March 26, 2015 by stuartelden

Three new Sloterdijk books forthcoming from Polity – two little translations, Stress and Freedom and In the Shadow of Mount Sinai, and Jean-Pierre Couture’s study Sloterdijk in their Key Contemporary Thinkers series.  

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